Not growing up here, I don't have antibodies (or, immunities, if you will) to all the things that come out (I guess mostly from unchanged funace filters) when the cold comes in and the windows get closed. When I first started working in a biochem lab at MSU years ago (the M = Michigan), December came, and I developed such a bad breathing disorder that I was almost hospitalized, and had 2 inhalers, one of the most extreme antibiotics, and steriods - and I had never been sick a day in my life since childhood!!!!

And Young Miss was in early elementary school - she turn into a sickly pale little stick. She got her anibodies (immunities) going and thrives now, but every winter, when the doors and windows close, I get So Sick. A little less every year, but it is bad here for me!